World Enteractive has a new interview with Rick McCallum which yields some interesting tidbits about the possibility of an Episode III in 3D and the Star Wars TV Series. Seems like the 3D was a long shot and scrapped, and the TV Series meetings start in the fall. Read on, and be sure to catch the rest on their site.

JK: So why did you even consider working with IMAX on Episode III?

RM: The reason is very simple ? we had been working with In-Three for a couple of years and they had proved to us that they have a real technology that actually works and that could be done in a cost effective way. They can take any 2-D movie and with their unique technology and turn it into a realistic 3-D movie. We gave them 10 minutes of New Hope footage and just weeks later they were back with the most astonishing 3-D footage I have ever seen. Out of nowhere, IMAX got in touch with us, but we made it perfectly clear that we were not interested in working with them again in a 2-D environment. IMAX suggested a gimmick of showing the last 20-30 minutes of Episode III in 3-D and having In-Three dimensionalize? it. We were interested in that suggestion but only if In-Three did the conversion using their process, which we were so impressed with. The only Episode III footage I gave directly to IMAX was just 3 minutes for them to do a comparison test of full-frame to 16:9 aspect ratios so that we could work out the transition between the 2-D and 3-D sections of the movie if we went ahead with their suggestion. In the end of the day it was too much of a gimmick ? and it all become too much of a drama, which was a shame because I was really excited about the idea.

JK: Let?s move on to television. You produced one of my favorite series, ?The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.? Will you be producing the ?Star Wars? television series as well?

RM: Really, I don?t know what I?ll be doing after this. I?m not sure if I?ll be involved in the series. We?ll be regrouping in September and will figure out then what we?re doing.